Raymond Bartlett Stevens
Raymond Bartlett Stevens ( born June 18, 1874 in Binghamton, New York, † May 18, 1942 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Already in 1876, at the age of two years, Stevens came with his parents to Lisbon in Grafton County in New Hamphire. There he attended the public schools. He then studied under law at Harvard University. After his made in 1899 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Lisbon. Stevens was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1909, 1911, 1913 and 1923 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. In 1912 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the constitution of New Hampshire.
1912 Stevens was elected in the second district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1913 is the successor of the Republican Frank Dunklee Currier, whom he had beaten in the election. Since he resigned in 1914 to another candidate for the House of Representatives, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. Instead, Stevens ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Between 1915 and 1917 he was Special Adviser to the Federal Trade Commission. During World War II he was in the years 1917 and 1918 U.S. Representative in the Allied Control Council, which dealt with marine transportation (Allied Maritime Transport Council). Between 1917 and 1920 he was also chairman of a federal committee, which also dealt with the transport of goods (United States Shipping Board ). In the years 1920 and 1924, Stevens was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. From 1926 to 1935 he was an advisor to the King of Siam to foreign policy issues. This activity he interrupted in 1933 for six months, during which he was a member of the Federal Trade Commission again. From 1935 until his death in 1942 he was again a member of this commission, which he chaired since 1937. Raymond Stevens died on May 18, 1942 in Indianapolis and was buried in Landaff (New Hampshire).